Apple iOS Laced with Undocumented Data Exfiltration Services

22

Jul

2014

Apples iOS being targeted by the NSA is a fact, but in a talk last week at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE X) conference in New York, data forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski revealed the existence of certain services in iOS that offer a backdoor for surveillance. According to the expert, this is a feature that has been available in the operating system for years and has evolved in time, constant updates being applied in each version of the mobile OS. Although present in about 600 mi…